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The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility : Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement
Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of city-wide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility …. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the … arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century. Our analysis finds that higher segregation reduces upward mobility for …
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Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa
Lam, David - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in South Africa. Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyze the large racial gaps in the proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university...
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Closing the Innovation Gap in Pink and Black
Cook, Lisa D.; Gerson, Janet; Kuan, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent research shows the negative impact of discrimination not only on the targets of discrimination but also on the economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes. Using new data from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates...
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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences : The Great Migration and Civil Rights
Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....
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Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them
Alesina, Alberto; Ferroni, Matteo F.; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using new large-scale survey and experimental data, we investigate how respondents perceive racial inequities between Black and white Americans, what they believe causes them, and what interventions, if any, they think should be implemented to reduce them. We intentionally oversample Black...
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Racial Disparities in Housing Returns
Kermani, Amir; Wong, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document the existence of a racial gap in realized housing returns that is an order of magnitude larger than disparities arising from housing costs alone, and is driven almost entirely by differences in distressed home sales (i.e. foreclosures and short sales). Black and Hispanic homeowners...
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Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented on juries. Using quasi-random variation in those called for jury duty...
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Persuasion in Medicine : Messaging to Increase Vaccine Demand
Alsan, Marcella; Eichmeyer, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
High-value preventive care is often underutilized. We study persuasion regarding the medical benefits of influenza vaccination by experimentally varying race concordance between sender and receiver, and, among Black respondents, a discordant sender's acknowledgement of historical injustice and...
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Access to Schooling and the Black-White Incarceration Gap in the Early 20th Century US South : Evidence from Rosenwald Schools
Eriksson, Katherine - 2015
A large gap in incarceration rates between black and white men has been evident since the early 20th century. This paper examines the effect of access to primary schooling on black incarceration in this period. I use the construction of 5,000 schools in the US South, funded by philanthropist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456943
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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